Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-18
NIE ON THE TANTIFY.
EASTERN COACHING COMPARED
WITH TIE WESTERN ARTICLE.

Williams Experience on the Main Deoh
of Tantiyy--Trying to Get Acquainted
with the Driver and Footman--luG-
gage Allowed.
The report that the rantivy coach was iIcl,i
up and robbed just south of Harlem during,
the early part of the week was Incorrect
: was OH board myself and 1 know that we
were not held up or robbed If had 0ecu
robbed could have easily detected it as soon
as made up my cash nj the end of the day
DO not regard the coach ride from the
Brunswick hotel to Pelham as one that is
especially fraught with danger \ cool man.
who Is well tied on, need have no fear what
ever. Coach robberies beyond Harlem are
quite rare, and from the Brunswick to Har-
lem the country is so rapidly settling up that
a masked band of road agents could hardly
expect to remain long undiscovered
The ride is pleasant one, and so full of all
that is picturesque, all that is grand, all that
is ennopling and all that is English, that from
the moment of the meet till the close of the
trip one feels that one has enjoyed ones
self. and one is more like ones hau ideal of
what is real nice than one has ever been
before
There are thirteen seats on the main deck
OF tantlvy, besides the seats occupied by
the coachinan and the guard Once sat by
the coachman and afterward rode with the
guard, but they were both dressed up SO much
better than l, and they seemed TO look down
on me with such lofty air of disdain. that I
was sorry went
But was very anxious to be on the front
seat with the driver, because he said lie would
soon go tooling into the Country club and
wanted 10 see how it WAS done NV early
life was almost devoid of educational advan-
eages, and so as regards tooling l was us ig-
norant as child. Prior to this week tooliny
might have gone on right under my verv
eyes and would not have known it So
SAT beside the coachman on the bow, instead
or going back on the poop deck with the
guard.
MUCH MORE REFINED.
How different the ride between the Bruins
wick and Harlem from the ride between Dem
yer and Leadville ten years agol How much
more refined to ride for miles among brown
stone front houses that resemble each other.
like square chunks of chocolate colored cake.
than to tool along up the Leadville road.
where you might not meet anybody fer fifty
miles and You almost wished that you
wouldn't meet anybody.
How raw and coarse the wild and woollv
stage driver seems when we compare him
with the coachman Of the tantivy. How
profsne he was, too, and careless in his
attire, compared with the scholarly man
with the handsome side whiskers and the
long, slim picture book whip and the plump
stage leg. l am free to state that never
lssiss the inferiorIty of xpY legs as did while
sitting beside that driver
l tried in every way to get acquainted
with bim-called him "Cap,r Offered to drive
Tor minute while he made an observation
through pedometer that carried with me,
tried to ride the nigh wheeler to show that
was entirely unconventional and easy to ap-
proach; bat it was of no use Then went
back into the galley. with the footman or
guard or whatever he is. he looked intelli-
gent, but he was not the kird of man would
like to 60 out fishing with for two weeks |. a
time. confess that was disappointed
him. / tried 70 have fun with him and ev. 4
5oked him about his trousers and tried /
syery WY 70 draw him out, but he didns
seem ~ have any conversational powexA